Earning money
The $2000 Lens Challenge
Joe from CaptainSquid is back from many adventures, with a new challenge for himself and anyone who wants to follow along.
Joe will attempt to get a brand new lensmaster account from $0 to $2000-per-month, using only the tools available to all lensmasters.
So anyone will be able to emulate his success.
If you are able to join [...]
The New Text Link Ads VS Your Own Intro Link Ads
Cashing In On The Lessons Learned
The Bad:
Have you seen the new Text Ads that appear automatically on all your lenses?
If you haven’t go now and take a look at one of your lenses. There will be 3 links on your lenses in green, and hovering over them will pop up an ad box. Personally [...]
Could you run an Offline Squidoo Business?
Here’s an interesting idea. Do a google search right now for driving lessons + your city
For example, for me it’s Driving Lessons Cardiff.
Stick yours into Google and see what comes up. Knowing what you know about how Squidoo lenses rank in google, do you think you could rank in the top 5?
Try something else. Maybe Personal [...]
Are you making the most of your lenses?
Are you doing everything you can to earn money from your lenses?
Are you using every opportunity to earn money from your lenses and make every sale you can? Don’t beat yourself up about it. I wrote this lost as a guide for me to begin with.
Here are some things to consider:
Are you adding affiliate links [...]
16Feb2009 | MrLewisSmile | 15 comments | Continued
The $7,500 lens
Do you treat your lensmaking as a hobby or a business?
I would guess that more than 99.9% of lensmasters treat their lensmaking time as a hobby. It pays rather nicely if you hit upon a great niche idea and write up some great content, but most of the time people are making lenses it’s probably [...]
Earning more money with a list…
Are you building a mailing list from your lenses?
When someone lands on your lens, how many chances of a sale do you get?
Mostly the answer will be… one.
If you get the person to look at a couple of your lenses then your chance of a sale doubles and triples.
But what if your lens visitors said [...]
AT LAST! Opt In Forms On Your Lenses!
If I had a dollar every time an internet marketer asked me if they can put an opt in form on their lens… I would have, well, a lot of dollars.
It is probably the most requested Squidoo feature from internet marketers. They want to use their lenses to build mailing lists.
Ever since Squidoo blocked the [...]
Make Money Promoting BuildMyLens.com
For the past 14 months Tiffany Dow and I have been building beautiful lenses for customers of BuildMyLens.com – our custom Squidoo lens building service.
We have earned thousands and thousands of dollars doing something we enjoy for people who appreciate it. Does it get much better?
Actually, yes
We have been fortunate enough to not [...]
How to get your own Super-Auto-Promoting Blog
Hey guys!
If you have been reading this blog for a while you will know of my past few posts about the power of blogging.
And I had a whole bunch of people email me asking for help setting up their blogs. So, I did something about it!
I have just launched a new blog service, with an [...]
HOW (and WHY) to start a blog for your lenses!
Hello hello hello..! Fun post today. Blog your socks off.
“Blogging and lenses go together like Winnie The Pooh and Tigger Too…
So do YOU have a blog for your lenses?”
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FIRSTLY, WHY WOULD YOU WANT A BLOG?
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Blogs are fun. Blogs are free. Blogs are fabulous. And blogs are FINDABLE!
It is extremely difficult now to do a search [...]
Hello, my name is Lewis :)
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Its sad in one respect - that the backlinks to lenses and groups was great for ranking.
On the flip side ...
Hope I am not too late to join in this discussion which was in October. I have only recently ...
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